尼日利亚作家，1930年生于尼日利亚，代表作有《这个世界土崩瓦解了》《再也不得安宁》等。曾获曼布克国际文学奖、英联邦诗歌奖、德国书业和平奖、尼日利亚国家奖等多项大奖，被英美等国大学授予了二十多个荣誉博士学位，入选“全球百名公共知识分子”。

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of his life, before Nigeria's independence in 1960, Achebe was officially defined as a 'British Protected Person'. In "The Educati...(展开全部)

In “The Education of a British-Protected Child,” Achebe gives us a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its “middle ground,” recalling both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of colonial rule. In “African-American Visitations,” we witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not t...(展开全部)

From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations on the African-American Dias...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." —The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim for cons...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." -The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim fo...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." —The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim for cons...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." -The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim fo...(展开全部)

The Education of a Christian Prince is a new student edition of Erasmus's crucial treatise on political theory. It contains a new, excerpted translation from his Panegyric, making it possible for the first time to compare two works which Erasmus himself regarded as closely related. The Education of a Christian Prince was published in 1516 and dedicated to Prince Charles, the fu...(展开全部)

珍妮·H.巴兰坦（Jeanne H.Ballantine），美国俄亥俄州立大学怀特分校社会学教授。主要研究领域是教育社会学、应用社会学、国际研究以及全球女性问题。她在哥伦比皿大学获得硕士学位，在印第安纳大学获得博士学位。曾执教于日本、巴西、西班牙、意大利、卢旺达（富布莱特学者）等多个国家，在中国也做过讲座和研究。她在国际社会学协会、美国社会学协会、应用社会学学会等多个学术组织中担任职务。她学术成果众多，现已出版五本著作（每本都再版多次）并发表大量论文，她曾荣获包括美国社会学协会颁发的“教学杰出贡献奖”在内的许多教学和科研奖项，弗洛伊德M.海默克（Foyd M.Hammack），美国纽约大学斯坦哈特文化学院教育与人类发展系社会学教授。其研究兴趣集中在中等教育改革以及高等教育问题上。近期著作有《当代综合高中》（2004）、《立法及教育权利诉讼之路：纽约和...(展开全部)